Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-05
THE IDEAL ELECTION.
DIR. fALNAGB TALKS ON POLITICS AS THEY
ARE AND SHOULD BE-
The Right and Wrong Node Of Conducting Campaign
The Work Of Mad Slinsss-Applying
the Backing Brush and the
Whitswssh Brush.

Witt Talmage, DID,, spoke in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle tonight IS usual, on the
secular events of the week from . religious
standpoint The subject of his address
was: THE Approaching Elections" He
said:
From the newspapers Of the past few
weeks am reminded of the fall elections
in nearly all the States, and as this autumn
will have much to do with the next au-
tumn Presidential election, there are some
things important TO say on the right and
wrong modes Of conducting q political
campaign. OF the two styl les We may make
our choice.
One way is to gather up the scum and
slush and turpitnde Of the community into
great reservoir and then let them run
down through the appointed aque-
ducts on the candidates presented.
Take the character of the man
whom you don't expect to vote
for and find out who his SUCCESSORS were,
and il any of them were hanged or I'M
prisoned, or boodlers Of public funds.
Make the son or grandson, now up for Of.
fee, suffer for it, Many OF those who are
not against the Theological theory that we
suffer Tor Adams transgression, are glad
in political life 10 make the descendant
nominated for Office take the oonseq uence
for ancestral delinquencies. Never forgive
good Eleazar OF Bible times because wicked
JehoS,phat was one Of his forefathers. A
candidate has no business TO have had
bad grandfather. Bring up the graveyard
and army those under tho ground against
those still above ground. Then marshal
all the candidates early indiscretions and
follies, and with them, from behind the
barricade Of the ballot-box, fusilade aud
bomhshell your antagonist.
Then come on TO the later periods OF the
candidates life. Take his utteRnccs and
put them into twisting machine, and
turn them this way aud that, and invert
them, disjoint them, decapitate them,
quarter them aud cruelty them. Paint
him black from head TO foot BE sure Of
beginning with the blacking brush at his
head, and show that he has no brains, no
mental qualification, no acumen, no sound
Judgment Then put the blacking brush
on his mouth. aud show that he cant
make speech, or. il he does speak, he
says the wrong thing. Then come down
to his his shoulders, and paint them black,
putting upon them the responsibility for
the wrong deeds of others. Then
PAINT HIS HEART BLACK,
showing that he Is cruel, and mean, and
arrogant, and oppressive TO the poor. Then
paint his pocket black, and show that he
never gives anything TO help Others, and
that much Of what he has in that pocket
he got dishonestly. Then come on down
and paint his knees black, showing that
he never prays, or is n bigot and only
kneels on his own sectarian footstool.
Then come on down and paint his feet
black, showing that he often walked in
forbidden places, and that he has often
slipped in morals Then paint his house
black, as in the last Presidential election,
when both candidates were by infamous
doggerel, and caricature, and campaign
song, assailed for their home life.
Then having worn out the blackiDg brush
on the opposing candidate, get a load Of
lime dump il mt the feet Of your iavorite
candidate, slack IL, and stir IL, and then
take your whitewash brush In hand.
Whitewash him from head 10 foot. Cover
up all his defects Make him wise, elo.
quent, patriotic, efficient. Lie M much In
| favor Of the man whom yon like a. you did
against the man whom you dislike. Talking
TO temperance people, make him out the
eternal friend Of sObriety, and talking to the
beer loving population make him vehement
against snmptuary enactment Say 20
those who are in favor Of unrcstrained emi-
grafton that be is fond Of foreigners, and
TO those who are opposed TO emigration
that he can't bear m lrishman. Say 10
Kentucky he u q free trader, and 10 Penn
sylvania that he Is for high tariff. Repre-
sent him when yon are near tho line he
tween North and South ~ believing that
the war Is over, and there ought 10 he no
more sectional strife; hut when you are up
further toward the north star, represent
him as In paryoIism Of indignation be-
cause jefferson Davis's hand was the other
day
KISSED by HIS OLD SOLDIERS
In Georgia. The fact In one candidate IL
by turns Doctor Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde.
Hare your candidate on q pivot 80 that
y0u can turn him round this way and that
like Mrs. Jarley's wax figures. Now,
fellow citizens, take my candidate or suffer
the consequences With him, prosperity,
good government, lesr taxes, and reform In
all departments. Reject him, and misruls,
depleted treasury, poor wages. bankruptcy
and ruin.
Now, having given three times three Tor
the solid ticket, we adjourn for the polls.
Have near the polls two or three saloons
with free drinks. II IL he against the Law
TO have the front door .opea On election
day, have the hack door unlocked, or, IL
that also lie watched, have some private
house where We can all 20 for reiresb-
J menis- You can't expect . man 10 stand
from morning 70 night 10 o coId Novem-
ber day without some kind Of physical
reinforcement. Go out and meet the peo-
pie as they come 10 The polls, and give
: them your package OF tickets II they are
prepared for another kind OF ballot, per
suade them Of their folly. Eeseech them
by all they hold dear % panse before they
throw the city or the county into disasters
from which they will never recover. II
you are at the hezd Of o factory
or Mke cpmuietciaa sslhpSuWSus,
tell your employees you do
not want 10 interfere With their political
yntiments; that you have never used your
J influence ~ IN employer, and never will
use IL, 70 decide what your employees
!, should do, but get = spy among your men
|. b report 90 you bow his comrades vote,
and after while, during The eourse of the
year, let those who voted difesest ticket
IRON that which yoa prefer, drop oat of
their places. not knowing what hurt tbem.
But election day il pas. nov declare
the polls clo.ed. Keep few Of the ballot
boxes
LATE IN RKPoRTTNG,
until you re whether IL Is going 70 be q
ein.e vote. II ciose election, 6x up the
returns. Do not Cor 10 paltzy thing n
: one or two hundred yots let the wrong
Sheriff, OF Mayor, OF President he elected.
. Yes; that reminds ms that made . nis-
take In oos Of those returna ] pat u
6gure three where it ought 10 have been
, the figure six. Hurry up TO hesdquastsn
with that eosrectiou. A few houn $50 u
seemed ~ IL We were aboat hundred and